Heart sounds are broken down into two categories: systolic (related to systole, the contraction of the ventricles to pump blood out of the heart) and diastolic (related to diastole, the relaxation ...

Atrial fibrillation (or "AFib"), which causes an irregular heart rhythm, affects far fewer Americans—recent estimates put it ...

The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime—that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers. lub-DUB, lub-DUB, lub-DUB. Sound familiar? If you listen to your ...

Certain elements such as tone, sound effects, and music ... necessarily reflect the views held by the institutions with which they are affiliated. Your heart pumps about 100,000 times a day. It pushes ...

Connie Bowling, a 75-year-old deaf patient from Forsyth County, received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in March ...

Abiomed is a medical device company headquartered in Danvers, Mass. Now part of Johnson & Johnson’s MedTech Segment, it ...